[mod.L., a. Gr. Εὐτέρπη the name of one of the Muses (goddess of music), f. εὖ well + τέρπ-ειν to please.]
1. Bot. A genus of palms of extremely graceful habit, sometimes nearly a hundred feet in height. (Treas. Bot., 1866.)
2. Astron. The 27th asteroid.
1867. Lardner & Dunkin, Handbk. Astron., xv. (ed. 3), 224. The planet Euterpe was found on the evening of the 8th of November 1853, by Mr. Hind.
